AbstractObjective: This study was conducted to determine the risk of falling for the patients of Ege University Medical Faculty.
Method: The sample of this descriptive study consists of the inpatients and out patients (n=1625) of Ege University Medical
Faculty who agreed on participating the study.
The study data was collected by using Patient Identification Form containing a total of 54 questions and including (for 17 years
and older patients) Itaki Fall Risk Scale (19 questions), (for patients aged 0-16) Harizmi Fall Risk Scales (9 questions) which will
be used to determine patients socio-demographic and clinical data (13 questions), the risk of falls and fall events (13 questions)
and fall risk scores. Statistical analysis of the data obtained are made by using SPSS for Windows 1 8.0 program, frequencies
and percentages, Chi-square test.
Results: For the patients mean age of 49.6 ± 21.9, 50.9% are male and 49.1% female patients and for 81.7% of them the Itaki
The Fall Risk Scale (17 years and above) is used. Of the patients treated in our hospital intensive care, ratio of 96.1% was found
to have a high risk of falling.
Conclusion: In conclusion, in Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital, the prevalence of patients with a high risk of falling were
identified as 74.8% (n = 1216).

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